Welcome!

... to the wonderful world of Catalyst, the MVC framework that makes web development fun, fast, and rewarding!

Documentation

• Movies of Catalyst in Action

• Newest Slides
  • KitiWiki
  • jrockway's detailed talk on building doqueue (September 2007)
  • mst's OSCON 2007 talk (mst)
  • Catalyst in 5 minutes (jrockway)
  • Building Catalyst Applications (jrockway)
  • Learning Catalyst (jrockway)
  • Bag of Tricks from IUseThis (marcus)

• Older Slides
  • Slides from mst's YAPC::EU 2006 Presentation: Crucible, Snowflakes
  • Slides from Catalyst presentation on YAPC::EU 2005
  • Slides from Catalyst presentation on YAPC::Asia 2006
  • Slides from mst's London PM Catalyst presentation

• Getting Started
  • Background knowledge that Catalyst expects you to have...a very short intro to Apache, Template Toolkit, etc.
  • Tutorial application from Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial for those too lazy to read/copy/paste.
  • Introductions to MVC concepts and practice from Catalyst Users
  • Installing lighttpd and FastCGI for Catalyst

• References
  • The main Catalyst documentation, from CPAN
  • Daily snapshot of the Catalyst documentation, in HTML
  • Detailed chart of Catalyst's processing flow. A must read once you get your feet wet.
  • Best Practices for writing Catalyst apps?
  • How to use catalyst with the perl debugger
  • Some advice on tests
  • draft Catalyst quick reference card (PDF and PostScript)
  • Issues that people have faced and how they solved them
  • Available Models, Views, and Plugins and their current status
  • List of all existing documentation, stating if it's valid, up to date and complete. All authors please fill out.
  • List of Advent Calendar topics covered in the 2005 Advent Calendar
  • List of Advent Calendar 2006 topics covered in the 2006 Advent Calendar
  • List of Advent Calendar 2007 topics covered in the 2007 Advent Calendar

Advocacy

Considering Catalyst for your project? Have a look at these:

• Short article about why a company chose to refactor a legacy C++ XML application using Catalyst, Template Toolkit and DBIX::Class http://software-reviews.summer-snowstorm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=27&mosmsg=Thanks+for+your+vote%21&mosmsg=Thanks+for+your+vote%21&mosmsg=Thanks+for+your+vote%21
• A followup article on this about why to chose perl http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/catalyst/2007-February/012135.html

Chat

IRC perl.org network, channel "#catalyst"

Installation / Download

General Info

There are several ways to get Catalyst. In addition to the standard CPAN and CPANPLUS methods, there are two quick install methods:

CatInABox: a complete package that can be installed easily on *nix and Windows without CPAN. It is available for download at http://handelframework.com/downloads/CatInABox.tar.gz. Once you have extracted the files just run start.bat on Windows or start.sh on *nix.

Shadowcat Installer: http://www.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/cat-install. This is a script that works with CPAN and automatically sets defaults so you can have a non-interactive install. Prerequisites include: perl 5.8.1+, a make and a compiler (nmake and dev-c++ are good on windows), a configured CPAN.pm and Module::Build installed. This installs Catalyst only and does not include the additional modules in Task::Catalyst.

* worked flawlessly on CentOS 4.3 x86_64 and SUSE 10.

Task::Catalyst: This is a package available via CPAN. It includes additional modules such as the Prototype plugin and TT View.

Debian Linux provides packages (invoke apt-cache search catalyst).

Examples

• InstantCrud http://search.cpan.org/~zby/Catalyst-Example-InstantCRUD-0.0.20/ For getting your feet wet by installing a sample application, I recommend this. On a relatively virgin catalyst install, with a non-root account at a web hoster, I wasn't able to install any of the other "samples" mentioned below. InstantCRUD, by contrast, seemed to Just Work.
• MiniMojo? http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/06/02/catalyst.html?page=2 and Mojo Mojo
• Handel (shopping cart) http://search.cpan.org/~claco/Handel-1.00006/
• Devel-ebug http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-ebug/
• Hops http://simonf.com/catalyst/ (you can download code, but the demo doesn't work)
• ServerDB http://www.hybridized.org/catalyst/
• EasyCMS http://dev.palle.net/svn/users/omega/easycms/trunk/
• CRUD application Note: this is cdbi-based stuff. I'll port it to dbic asap.
• PDFJoin.zip Simple app to join pdf files using PDF::API2
• SOSA (Samba and Open-xchange Simple Administrator - Coming soon!) http://sosa.sourceforge.net
• Typeface (Blog) http://typeface-project.org/

Sites Using Catalyst

Logo page

• Vox - Online social blogging sight http://www.vox.com
• EditGrid? - Online, real-time updating spreadsheet service designed for extreme collaboration and real world use http://www.editgrid.com/
• MighTyV - Award winning telly-software by leading perl hackers http://www.mightyv.com/
• iusethis http://osx.iusethis.com (I use this, what do you use?)
• Nyheter.abcsok.no - Search in norwegian news - Catalyst & Xapian http://nyheter.abcsok.no
• Hybridized - Live & DJ Mixes from selected electronic artists http://www.hybridized.org
• Oxford English Dictionary Sci-Fi Quotations Database http://www.jessesword.com/sf
• Natural History Book Service http://www.nhbs.co.uk/catalogue/
• Chicks-on-vinyl http://www.chicksonvinyl.com/ (potentially NSFW)
• PerlChina http://member.perlchina.org/, Catalyst Advent Calendar (Chinese Version http://catalyst.perlchina.org/calendar)
• Denshi Jisho - Japanese dictionary http://jisho.org/
• University of Florida Phonebook http://phonebook.ufl.edu/
• Podbop - Podcasting bands coming to your town http://podbop.org/
• NALD: Library http://library.nald.ca/, http://bibliotheque.bdaa.ca/, Newswire http://newswire.nald.ca/, http://filsdepresse.bdaa.ca/, Events http://events.nald.ca, http://evenements.bdaa.ca/
• backend of the appartment/housing part of ny.no. (in norwegian) http://www.ny.no/bolig
• Dresdner Ball Street http://www.dresdner-ball-street.de/ (German WM 2006 Stockexchange Game)
• itXcel Internet Ltd UK Web Hosting
• Vancitylofts http://www.vancitylofts.com (A Vancouver Lofts based real estate site)
• Barrypockay.com http://www.barrypockay.com (Catalyst driven listings system)
• Williamson Computing Services Limited - WCS - Oracle, Open Source and Linux Experts http://www.wcsnet.co.uk/
• http://www.smshighway.ro
• Gliding Club of Victoria http://www.gliding-benalla.org
• http://letsgetdugg.com/ (blog)
• Austrian radio station Oe1 http://oe1.orf.at/
• MoneyTV http://www.be24.at/
• http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ : Manchester Evening News, Britain's largest regional newspaper.
• PictureTrail? (In Progress): http://www.picturetrail.com
• https://www.flexitimemanager.net/subscribe : Flexi Time Manager offers an online flexi time database for recording the hours you work in a flexi time sheet.
• Suretec Systems Ltd. - Linux and Open Source Systems Integrators http://www.suretecsystems.com/
• Mandriva Linux Community Hardware Compatibility List http://hcl.mandriva.com/
• Handel Framework - A simple commerce framework with AxKit?/TT/Catalyst support. http://handelframework.com/
• Beyahad - Israeli bi-polar self-help group organizers http://www.beyahad.info/
• Clacos Photos/Meios Demo http://photos.icantfocus.com/
• Art, Liturgy, and Religious Cult in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Workshop http://artlit.woobling.org/
• FSCMS http://kieren.diment.org (A filesystem based CMS, to be part of social software for academics. Source code to follow.
• Florian Ragwitz' homepage http://perldition.org/
• Scrpbk.com gives its users something between a blog, a bookmark collection, a personal website and a scrapbook. What it is for you is your call. ( help improve scrpbk ) http://scrpbk.com/
• The Covers Project - Database of cover songs http://www.coversproject.com/

Open Source projects using Catalyst

• Angerwhare - http://search.cpan.org/search?query=angerwhale
• CPANTS (The CPAN Testing Service) - http://cpants.perl.org
• Parley (forum / message board) http://developer.berlios.de/projects/parley/
• MojoMojo wiki
• App-CamelPKI - http://search.cpan.org/~grm/App-CamelPKI-0.04/
• FileZ - http://search.cpan.org/~eriam/FileZ-0.01_01/
• Mango : Ecommerce solution using Catalyst, Handel and DBIx::Class (blog)
• Handel : Shopping cart/order/checkout framework (http://handelframework.com/)
• NetHorus network management system
• Test-WWW-Selenium-Catalyst-0.01

Commercial Support

There are companies and individuals offering commercial support for Catalyst.

• Shadowcat Systems (http://www.shadowcatsystems.co.uk)
• Suretec Systems Ltd. (http://www.suretecsystems.com)
• Robert Sedlacek (http://474.at - Hamburg, GER)

Frequently Asked Questions

(Note: FAQs that are now part of the documentation have been removed from this wiki.)

• QuestionsAndCriticism
• Unified FAQ
• Project roadmap, aka "what you can find in next releases"
• RandomUsefulInfo
• Fringe Benefits - Getting the most out of Catalyst prerequisites
• How to modify the scaffolding to have the list sortable by columns
• How do I check out the latest and greatest Catalyst from subversion?! -- svn co http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/

Core Developer Team

• draven - Marcus Ramberg
• andyg - Andy Grundman
• the_jester - Jesse Sheidlower
• mst - Matt S. Trout
• nothingmuch - Yuval Kogman
• LTjake - Brian Cassidy
• Ningu? - David Kamholz
• jrockway - Jonathan Rockway

On hiatus

• chansen - Christian Hansen

Wiki Site Map

• Wiki Site Map

Articles

perl.com: Catalyst

Mailing List

• The List (you might want to read this before you post)
• Archives Searchable Archive
• Gmane interface to comp.web.catalyst.general
• German Mailing List

Hosting

• Annotated list of Catalyst-friendly web hosting providers

Development Wish List

• WishList

REWARDS!

• The UN 'beer for features' program
• The 'I wrote a new feature for Catalyst and all I got was this lousy t-shirt' program

Artwork

• Logos and Buttons
• T-Shirt Designs